Finance minister Jan Kees de Jager does not support giving any financial help to airlines which have been hit hard by the ban on flying caused by the Icelandic volcanic eruption, he told RTL Z news.

The government had bailed out the banks because of their ‘special role in society’, De Jager said. Airlines are ‘a different situation which cannot be compared with the banks,’ he said. ‘Their importance to society is different.’
International air travel body IATA estimates at least five medium-sized and small European airlines could go bankrupt because of the shut down of European aviation, which lasted six days.
IATA chairman Giovanni Bisignani on Tuesday called on the European Union to allow countries to help out their airlines.
Airlines were given the green light to go ahead with night flights from Dutch airports on Tuesday night, as aviation safety experts said the threat from the cloud of volcanic ash had receeded.